Programming, Curating and Reconstruction as Elements of a Performative Practice of Film Historiography

随着电影档案在媒体文化反思性历史化的旗帜下逐渐变得重要，在这个过程中，电影图像在数字网络中的流通也起着决定性的作用，该项目特别关注电影档案、电影院和展览实践相结合的地方的记忆和记忆功能与电影美学的关系。起点是由策划节目的概念形成的，作为表现和电影史学的媒介，这一概念在以前的研究中被很大程度上忽视了。该项目提出了一个问题，即在多大程度上可以将电影编排实践理解为一种历史学模式。它根据对选定的电影和录像艺术机构的具体策展概念的审查回答了这些问题，从比较的角度分析了这些机构的档案和收藏品及其各自的保存和重建做法。扩展了以往电影理论思考的视野，该项目的工作假设是，放映实践在美学上确定电影主题方面发挥着重要作用，例如，音乐作品的特定表演就是如此。根据这一假设，该项目利用重要的案例研究来审查与开展档案工作和描绘档案馆馆藏有关的三个关键领域：实验电影/扩大电影院、电影和录像装置以及策划的电影节目。调查期从20世纪70年代一直持续到现在。

As film archives are gradually gaining in significance under the banner of the reflexive historicization of media culture, a process in which the circulation of film images in digital networks also plays a decisive role, the project pays particular attention to the relationship between memory and remembrance functions and film aesthetics at the place where film archives, cinemas and exhibition practice come together. The starting point is formed by the concept of the curated program as constituting a medium of representation and film historiography, a concept thus far largely neglected in previous research. The project raises the question of the extent to which the practice of film programming can be understood as a mode of historiography. It answers these questions based on an examination of concrete curatorial concepts from selected film and video art institutions, whose archives and collections and their respective preservation and reconstruction practices are analysed from a comparative perspective. Expanding the horizons of previous film theoretical reflections, the project works on the assumption that screening practice plays just an important role in aesthetically determining the subject of film as is the case for a particular performance of a musical piece for example. In light of this assumption, the project draws on significant case studies to examine three key areas with regard carrying out archive work and portraying archive holdings: experimental film/expanded cinema, film and video installations and curated film programs. The period of investigation extends from the 1970s to the present.